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Academic C

Listening & Speaking

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Course Overview

Level
Academic C
Course Code
LS
Status
Active

Course Description

This course introduces students to academic speech so that they can listen accurately and speak effectively in academic contexts. 

Course Emphasis

  • Listening  40%
  • Vocabulary  10%
  • Speaking 40%
  • Pronunciation  10%

Course Books and Materials

TBD

Course Learning Outcomes

  • Understand level-appropriate spoken texts 
    • Understand main ideas 
    • Understand major details 
    • Understand essential minor details 
    • Recognize common organizational patterns
    • Recognize speaker's intent 
    • Recognize meaning of suprasegmentals (pausing, stress, intonation, connected speech)
  • Effectively implement appropriate listening strategies 
    • Connect content to background knowledge 
    • Predict content using context clues and background knowledge 
    • Listen for specific information 
    • Use context and background knowledge to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words 
  • Produce level-appropriate speech
    • Narrate and describe in all major time frames about academic topics
    • Adequately support ideas and opinions with facts, examples, and reasons
    • Adequately deal with unanticipated complications
    • Hypothesize about familiar situations with some control of aspect
    • Use organizational patterns when speaking
    • Use grammar and transitions to connect ideas within and between paragraphs
    • Adapt speech to specific audiences and context
  • Synthesize information from written and spoken sources
    • Summarize main ideas and major details from sources
    • Synthesize information from sources
    • Use appropriate reported speech patterns
  • Incorporate a variety of high frequency academic vocabulary
    • Recognize and understand high frequency academic vocabulary 
    • Use grammar strategies to recognize meaning and purpose of vocabulary
    • Use grammar strategies to change the meaning and or part of speech of familiar words
    • Use predictable and appropriate discourse markers to connect ideas

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